REMEMBERED EMMA METZ: ONE-OF-A-KIND CALHOUN MOUNTAIN WOMAN - Her Field Of Flowers Glowing

(04/04/2021)

By Bob Weaver In 2021 Emma Metz's field of flowers are brilliantly glowing. Metz was a one-of-a-kind Calhoun mountain woman, the likes of which we will never see again. Emma died in 2009 at 86 at her home on Crummis Creek at the edge of the Bear Fork wilderness, where she wandered as a child and later roamed with her livestock. Emma settled in the hollow after World War II, and stayed in her simple dwelling. She declined the erection of a mail box. West Virginia newspaper columnist Dave Peyton placed her in his "West Virginia original" category. See related stories EMMA'S FIELD OF FLOWERS SHINE BRIGHTLY - Memories Of Mountain Woman Fade EMMA'S ELEGY - "If You Don't Need It, You Shouldn't Have It" A RETURN TO EMMA'S FIELDS - Fritters, Flowers And Poems 'ORIGINAL' PEOPLE OFFER ETERNAL HOPE - Reprint From The Huntington Herald-Dispatch

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